A “failed policy based on failed research”: The destructive legacy of Bill Clinton’s 1996 welfare reform act

Jill Adams quoted by Salon, August 28, 2016

The reforms “focused significant attention on family formation in its stated goals and underlying motivations — valorizing marriage, stigmatizing ‘out-of-wedlock birth,’ and demonizing poor, unmarried mothers (of color) as the source of many social ills.”